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Chris Wenham has been writing fiction and nonfiction for over 20 years. You can follow his ongoing work at ChrisWenham.com

Five Cent Epiphanies

A collection of silly little epiphanies. If you liked any of them, drop a nickel in the tip char.

Lanir from Babylon 5 was Will Robinson from Lost In Space

Everybody looks like someone else I know, and I could group people together by the mold they were pressed out of. There are probably only 6 or 7 molds for each of men and women

I can't imagine something unless I've experienced a tiny little taste of something similar to it. EG: I couldn't have imagined the sensation of flying until I'd been in freefall at least once

If I was God I'd hate to be praised. Praise is too easy to fake. Learning and understanding are impossible to fake

Humans are only occasionally sentient. Most of the time we're running on instinct, just like animals

The little plastic triangle in the middle of the pizza is to stop the lid from sticking to the cheese

Most people in charge don't know what they're doing, but they're confident they can figure something out when there's an emergency

The biggest problem in medicine is that people tend to be healthy

Physical things are a liability, ideas are the asset

You can't get value out of an idea unless you start acting on physical things

Any time people or things start behaving in a consistent way, you can start hacking that system

In the carbon-cycle, trees use photosynthesis to detach the carbon atom from CO2 to make O2, and we react inhaled O2 it with glucose in a way that attaches a carbon atom, and then we exhale CO2. That means the wooden table I'm writing this at is made out of breath

The cold virus infecting me right now is actually my very very very very very distant cousin